· Private foundation
Penn Treaty Special Service District
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $414k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $81,457 |
| FISHTOWN NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION | $72,900 |
| ST LAURENTS SCHOOL | $54,500 |
| KESINGTON SOCCER CLUB | $53,500 |
| LUTHERN SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $52,000 |
| FISHTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB | $50,000 |
| 12 PLUS | $50,000 |
| ART SPHERE INC | $46,000 |
| NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT | $35,831 |
| PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER | $35,000 |
| ROCK TO THE FUTURE | $35,000 |
| FISHTOWN KENSINGTON AREA BID | $30,500 |
| Northern Liberties Business Improvement District | $30,000 |
| PHILLY TRUCE FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| LIGUORI ACADEMY | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NLNORTHERN LIBERTIES BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT6× · 2019–2024 · $299k · revenue +53%
- FNFishtown Neighbors Association8× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue ×56 · 75% of their budget
- ASART SPHERE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +154% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- DRDELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -7%
- HNHOLY NAME OF JESUSone grant, 2018 · $66k
- PHPHILA HORTICULTIAL SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $66k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Education, arts and culture.
Shakespeare in Clark Park produces cultural events which bridge the gap between audiences and artists by inviting community members to take part in making and shaping our productions. Our productions are rooted in the people of…
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Students wrote produced and performed an original musical Bridges The musical follows students as they navigate their racial identities address issues of race at their suburban school and challenge a music education system in need of…
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Moffet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 172 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTHERN LIBERTIES BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds Fishtown Neighbors Association ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PENN TREATY PARK ↗
- Who funds ART SPHERE INC ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 12 PLUS ↗
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Greensgrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Artwell Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLAY STUDIO ↗
- Who funds The Halide Project ↗
- Who funds Inliquidcom Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NLArts ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD TRUST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Bread and Roses Community Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Penn Treaty Special Service District funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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